31‚ 2013 “Weeping Woman” In the painting‚ “Weeping Woman” by Pablo Picasso is a thematic continuation of the tragedy portrayed in Picasso’s epic painting “Guernica”. The focus of the image is of a woman crying. In www.pablopicasso.org‚ I found that Picasso the woman has the features of a specific person‚ Dora Maar‚ whom Picasso described as "always weeping". She was in fact his partner in the time of his life when he was most involved with politics. This painting is of a woman crying‚ holding something
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and Italian paintings / Eitan Kenner The piece St. Luke Drawing the Virgin‚ c. 1435-40 by Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden is an oil and tempera painting presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Its narrative is a popular theme in art‚ showing St. Luke painting the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus. Such paintings were often painted for chapels of Saint Luke (saint patron of artists) in European churches during the Renaissance. Fifteenth century Flemish painting in general and this
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she married a year later. She could not have children with him because of the accident. Frida was a huge part of the surrealism movement‚ and a good example of this would be her painting‚ “Las Dos Fridas” (“The Two Fridas”). This work was painted in 1939‚ shortly after her divorce from Diego Rivera. The painting depicts two different personalities‚ or versions of her‚ sitting on a bench. The Frida on the left is clad in a Victorian era wedding dress (this depicts the Frida that Diego left)‚
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the individual in David’s painting "The Oath of the Horatii". Rousseau’s publication‚ The Social Contract‚ states that "Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains". His belief is that everyone is equal and nobody has authority over anyone else. This was the source of the revolutionaries’ ideas (p96 Blk 3). In order to be free while living in society’‚ Rousseau’s solution is that the individual adopts the general will. This view is also reflected in David’s painting "The Oath of the Horatii"
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Issue131 The arts (painting‚ music‚ literature‚ etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society." Do the arts always express the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of society? I fundamentally agree with what the speakers has asserted. However‚ besides showing otherwise hidden thoughts and stimulus of society‚ they are also used to express the author’s personal feelings and emotions‚ or mirror the beauty of nature. In this respect‚ the arts are regarded as something for their
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in a long history of artists‚ styles and conventions that brought us to what art critics named the first truly modern painting: Olympia. Great milestones were accomplished along the way: Praxitales’ Aphrodite was the first Greek female nude. The Sleeping Venus by HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgione"Giorgione‚ was the first female reclining nude in European painting. Countless artists strived to paint or sculpt the most perfect or intriguing idea of feminine beauty. This brings us
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Still-life painting was appearing to become more popular in Italy‚ northern Europe and Spain in the 16th Century. Over time‚ it became more common in these places‚ and artists began to change what they painted‚ and instead focused on painting plants‚ animals and man-made objects. The objects that were put into the still-life paintings were that of new discoveries‚ when the Spanish and the Dutch began to explore overseas territory. The ‘foreign specimens’ created huge excitement with the people of
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FOUR STYLES OF ROMAN WALL PAINTING The wall paintings evolved from around 2nd BC. Romans created these extravaganza works to emphasise their wealth. The evidence for the techniques used is described by Vitruvius ’ in _De Architectura._ He noted that wall paintings were interior wall designs as frescoes‚ which were executed using damp plaster (lime and sand mixed together). There must have been at least several layers of this plaster‚ where the top layers were burnished with marble powder to make
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Case Briefing #2 Vizcaino v. US Dist. Court for WD of Wash.‚ 173 F. 3d 713 (9th Cir.1999) Material Facts: Donna Vizcaino‚ Jon R. Waite‚ Mark Stout‚ Geoffrey Culbert‚ Lesley Stuart‚ Thomas Morgan‚ Elizabeth Spokoiny‚ and Larry Spokoiny sued on behalf of themselves and a court certified class against Microsoft Corporation and its various pension and welfare plans‚ including its Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)‚ and sought a determination that they were entitled even as independent
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How has Picasso Used his Art Making in his painting “Guernica” to Comment the Atrocities of War? Guernica‚ is a painting by Pablo Picasso‚ a famous Spanish artist. It was painted as a reaction to the bombing of Guernica‚ Spain during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The painting is a large canvas mural‚ stretching 7.8 metres wide - 3.5 metres tall. Originally painted to be displayed at the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica shows the tragedies of war as well as the anguish and destruction it
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